What’s in Store: ‘Peter’s Stocking’ tradition at Stewart’s carries on

Ten years ago, Peter Lewis posed with Ben Stryker, then nine, the winner of the annual “Peter’s Stocking” promotion at Walter Stewart’s Market. Lewis died at 60 in September.

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The late Peter Lewis of New Canaan, a longtime employee of Walter Stewart’s Market, may have died in early September at age 60, but the Christmas season tradition that was started in 1978 of him filling a large stocking with toys he selected (and that one lucky child would then win) lives on in his honor.